During the First World War, American home front was awash with conspiracy theories alleging that internal German enemies were intentionally spreading disease among both human and animal populations, most egregiously in case of influenza epidemic. While false, these stories nonetheless revealed Americans’ shifting relationships to environment, warfare, federal state. They channeled immediate fea...

The study of personal experiences British and Australian soldiers during the First World War can be further developed through a discrete analysis married men's interactions with wartime masculine ideals. This article seeks to provide preliminary insight into such case‐study two officers serving on Western Front in 1916 correspondence they wrote their wives throughout military service. Lieutenan...